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Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had
by Bass, Rick
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0395926181
- ISBN 13
- 9780395926185
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Like New. 5x0x8. Signed by Author. First printing flat-signed by Bass on the title page in a heavy hand, leaving an impression on the following page. A tiny stain on top edge of text block but essentially like new. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.
Synopsis
Colter was the runt of the litter, and Rick Bass took him only because nobody else would. Soon, though, Bass realized he had a raging genius on his hands, and he raided his daughters' college fund to send Colter to the best schools. Colter could be a champion, Rick was told, but he'd have to be broken, slowed down. Rick "could no more imagine a slowing-down Colter than a slow-motion bolt of lightning in the sky," and instead of breaking Colter he followed him. Colter led him into new territory, an unexplored land where he felt more alive, more intimately connected to the world, than he'd ever been before. In the course of telling us Colter's story, Rick Bass also tells us of his childhood fascination with snapping turtles and dirt, and of the other animals - including people - that have shaped his life. COLTER is an interspecies love story that vividly captures the relationship between humans and dogs. Like all of Bass's work, it is passionate, poetic, and original.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Chaparral Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CHAPbadCOLT
- Title
- Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had
- Author
- Bass, Rick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395926181
- ISBN 13
- 9780395926185
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2000
- Size
- 5x0x8
- X weight
- 11 oz
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Chaparral Books
Biblio member since 2015
Portland, Oregon
About Chaparral Books
Chaparral Books is located across from Elephant's Deli on S Corbett Avenue in Portland. We have a well rounded collection of subjects, including an extensive core collection in Western Americana and Native American Literature including Western Writers.
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